These bubbles seem to be inflating and popping with shorter and shorter cycle times, as if the VC-fueled bullshit economy is bumbling toward some kind of ending. It reminds me of a supermassive star burning it’s way down the periodic table until its heart is chock full of iron.

I’m probably just seeing patterns in the noise, but it’s a nice thought innit? no you’re right, it’ll probably blast the innocent bystanders, mostly.

https://lco.global/spacebook/stars/high-mass-star/

High mass stars go through a similar process to low mass stars in the beginning, except that it all happens much faster. They have a hydrogen fusion core, but much of the hydrogen fusion happens via the CNO cycle. After the hydrogen is exhausted, like low mass stars, a helium core with a hydrogen shell forms, then a carbon core, with helium and hydrogen shells. Then unlike low mass stars, they have enough mass that gravity contracts the core raising the temperature and carbon can fuse into neon, then neon into oxygen, then oxygen into silicon, then iron. Each stage of burning lasts a shorter time than the previous one. For example, in a 25 solar mass star, hydrogen burning would take about 7 × 10⁶ years, helium burning 7 × 10⁵ years, carbon burning 600 years, neon burning 1 year, oxygen burning 6 months and silicon burning one day. Once silicon has fused into iron, no more fusion occurs, as the fusion of iron requires more energy than it releases. The core therefore collapses and releases a huge amount of energy in an explosion called a supernova. In the centre of the debris from the explosion is an incredibly dense neutron star. If the star is massive enough, the neutron star will collapse further and form a black hole.

The Poop Stick Paradox (PSP)

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how fucking far are their heads up their own collective arses to not understand that you can’t have a productive, healthy discourse without drawing a line in the sand?

they spend fucking hundreds of collective hours going around in circles on the EA forum debating[1] this shit, instead of actually doing anything useful

They discovered scope creep but for racism and made it into a religious obligation.

This sounds like a great setup for an episode of “Well There’s Your Problem.”

Are these guys any relation to that “Newag” outfit that tried to brick a train after detecting a third-party repair?

I’m no lawyer, I don’t even play one on TV, so upfront apologies if I’m hanging my ass out.

That said, it sounds to me like Doctorow might have a point here. Suppose Universal et al. gets a precedent-setting ruling and slays OpenAI. LOL, LMAO even, but then what? What’s to keep the current entertainment cartels from making deals with Microsoft or the husks of the AI companies to rev up their own (now) fully legal and licensed bullshit engines? The only winning legal play is Giant Asteroid.

It’s like young-earth creationists who believe that dinosaur bones were installed as-is at the beginning of time time in order to test us, so their existence proves nothing about geology or evolution.

Really appreciate you and Amy! o7

mods, can we please have a rule so that only people who are shitting can post here. thanks in advance xoxo

The Rule of 2

Fuck me…I mean, say what you want about the tenets of Effective Altruism, Dude. At least it’s an ethos!

What killed lurking before posting, and can we blame WOKE? (just kidding!)

I do wonder if seamless federation can be too seamless, since it clearly makes it easier for people to get a bit lost and wander into niche forums unintentionally.

oh god. these people are exhausting.

I’ve been appreciating the term “high-control group” as an alternative, with reference to the BITE [1] model of thought control. People trapped in the group housing situation easily check all of those boxes.

[1] https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model-pdf-download/ (note: Steven Hassan has done good work, but can be a little too profit-seeking himself imho)

I’d bet five dollars that he brought them snakes out for everyone to pet and it was super awkward for a bit, but maybe I’m just unfairly prejudiced against snake guys.

The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Goon

Edit: I thought to myself, “deborah’s post would be a great fanfic prompt! SecUnit decides to look up the ol family history, and BOOM, it exposes itself to these TESCREAL characters. It would be appalled!”

Throwing caution to the wind, I went to look up Murderbot on AO3 and now I’m scheduled to get my No Regerts tattoo inked-over next week. It’s still a great idea, though!

“extremely large New Guinea.”

It’s just got big bones

1000 Years Thought Leader Jail

A masterpiece, no notes.

Also, I read this in SecUnit’s voice.

If you really wanna just throw some fucking spaghetti at the wall, YOU CAN DO THAT WITHOUT AI.

This is coming from someone who hates google, but if this person’s entire family had died, I would put a LOT of that blame on them before google.

That would really put the “uh oh” in your spaghettios

The Good Place is a perfect model for this. For the price of a single simulated clam chowder fountain, you can torture hundreds of souls in parallel!